Attorneys for Patients Mistreated at Aperion Care Decatur

Nursing facilities and convalescent homes in Illinois are required to provide each resident with respect and dignity to maintain their personal integrity in a safe environment. The rights of the resident include being free from physical, mental and emotional abuse, and exploitation. This includes the rights to be free of corporal punishment, or chemical or physical restraint unless mandated by the physician’s written orders. Sadly, the Decatur nursing home abuse attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC have handled many cases where victims have suffered serious harm in many nursing facilities throughout Illinois.

As legal advocates, our attorneys provide various legal options to residents and family members that have been victimized by the center and/or nursing staff. We provide data that details the safety concerns of those residing in Illinois nursing homes. This information helps families make well-informed decisions on exactly where to place an aging, ill or disabled family member for short or long term care.

Aperion Care Decatur

Aperion Care Decatur is a 140-bed post-hospital care and rehabilitation center providing round-the-clock skilled nursing care along with speech, occupational and physical therapies. The facility is located at:

2650 North Monroe St.Decatur, IL 62526(217) 875-1973

The facility also provides numerous health care services to meet the needs of Macon County residents that include:

Cardiac rehabilitation

Post-stroke rehabilitation

Palliative/hospice care

Alzheimer’s/dementia care

IV/infusion therapy

Joint replacement/orthopedic therapy

Diabetes management

Medication management

Respiratory therapy including tracheostomy care

Wound care

Respite care

Nursing Facility Patient Safety Concerns

Every year, data is released by www.Medicare.gov outlining the patient safety concerns of residents staying at U.S. nursing facilities. Current information indicates that Aperion Care Decatur maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars (much below average) compared to other facilities nationwide. This includes a one out of five stars for quality measures, staffing and health inspection.

This rating summary indicates the much below standards of quality measurements based on assessment information on how the facility meets the health and hygiene care needs of its residents. The health inspection rating indicates the level of acceptable practices and procedures investigated through scheduled and unannounced site inspections. The staffing rating indicates the staff hours of the facility’s RNs, LVN’s, LPNs and CNAs.

The Decatur nursing home neglect attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC note that there are many complaints filed against Aperion Care Decatur in recent years. Some recent egregious complaints involve:

Failure to Properly Manage the Personal Funds of Residents:

In a summary statement of deficiencies dated 07/23/2015, a complaint was opened upon review concerning the facility’s failure to properly manage the personal funds of numerous residents. The complaint noted that “the facility failed to provide quarterly resident fund statements to eight of eight residents [that was] reviewed for resident funds …” Upon interview, eight out of eight residents who have resided at the facility for up to two years and longer indicated that they have “never received a quarterly statement” of their funds as required by law.

In a summary statement of deficiencies dated 07/01/2015, a complaint was filed based on the facility’s failure “to obtain orders for urinary catheter changes and maintenance care and [failure] to ensure Urologist follow-up as ordered by a physician …” The urologist stated that the resident’s “urinary catheter should have been changed every four weeks. I can attribute the multiple urinary tract infections to the catheter being in place for eight months. It is egregious that the facility left the catheter in for eight months. I could not believe it.”

Failure to Supervise a Resident Who Left the Building Unnoticed:

In a summary statement of deficiencies dated 05/13/2015, a complaint investigation was opened involving the facility’s failure to supervise a resident “reviewed for elopement (leaving the building unnoticed). The facility also failed to properly respond to an audible alarm that [the resident] was leaving the building.”

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Disclaimer: The above inspection findings are take from public sources including the State Department of Health and from Medicare inspection conducted at the facility at least every fifteen months. Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC cannot confirm that the content on this site is the most recent information related to the facilities mentions.

The deficiencies/citations listed on this page may have been corrected or substantially corrected after the date of the inspection and date of publishing this material. This page is a legal advertisement and a resource of information for visitors. This material is not endorsed by the facility noted or by any governmental agency. Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC does not have any affiliation with the facility.

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